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<a href=”http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2014-12-05-childwaitingatawindow1292015741.jpg”><img alt=”2014-12-05-childwaitingatawindow1292015741.jpg” src=”http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2014-12-05-childwaitingatawindow1292015741-thumb.jpg” width=”400″ height=”308″ /></a> With 23 years between my two children, I entered a different world in 1995 when my second child was born. As an old-schooled mom, I wasn’t familiar and grew terribly confused by the aggressive parenting style I encountered the second time around. But I continued raising my second child in the same way as my first, having learned my mother’s devout teachings “to feel what another feels by walking in the other’s shoes.”…..

What does our First Lady, Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, and my mother, Amelia DeNofa, have in common that make a family thrive? In an interview with NBC News that aired Tuesday evening, Clinton explained one of the many reasons why she may forgo a 2016 run. “I am about to become a grandmother in the fall, which I know is gonna change my life,” she said. “I don’t know how I’m gonna feel about that. I wanna feel the feelings around becoming…..

“She took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.” -Genesis 3:6 The Power of Love My parents had been very strict, raising us with morals and values through the word of God, rather than in the ways of the world. Those values stayed with me and I still practice them as much as possible with my own children. I feel blessed that I’ve…..

Imagine a mother with seventeen children, being aware of one missing child alone in her bedroom for too many hours. She then goes on to make all the necessary arrangements to let this child know that there’s a world outside waiting for her, and needs her. This is just one of the things my mother did for my youngest sister, Shirley, who was fourteen-years-old at the time. I was married, and with a four-year-old daughter when I received a phone…..